{"id":26572,"date":"2011-09-19T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26572"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:28:03","slug":"appeals-court-tosses-out-padilla-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26572","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court tosses out Padilla sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the A<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/appeals-court-throws-17-terror-sentence-151722114.html\">ssociated Press<\/a>, the 11th Circuit Court has thrown out the sentence for terrorist Jose Padilla who plotted to detonate a &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221; in downtown Chicago. For once the court goes along with popular opinion tha Padilla&#8217;s 17-year sentence was too short;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the sentence imposed by a Miami federal judge was too lenient. The appeals court sent the case back for a new sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Padilla and two co-conspirators were convicted in 2007 after a three-month trial in which prosecutors said they sent money, recruits and supplies to Islamic extremist groups including al-Qaida. The appeals ruling upheld all the convictions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it wants to, the justice system can work against terrorism, the problem is, the court system never really wants to work against terrorism. I&#8217;m pleased that this time it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the 11th Circuit Court has thrown out the sentence for terrorist &hellip; <a title=\"Appeals court tosses out Padilla sentence\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26572\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appeals court tosses out Padilla sentence<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}